2006 has been quite the amazing year for me. Honestly, I don’t really know where to begin.

Obviously, a shitload of stuff has happened, although a lot of them happen to be uh, unpleasant. Of course, I’ve always made it a point to count my blessings for all the wonderful things that have been happenning. I’ve made acquaintances with a few interesting characters and they have made some serious impacts on my life.

Maybe it’s just me, but 2006 felt like a pretty long year to me.

There was change everywhere. This site, for example has been through numerous changes. MMU’s second phase got closer and closer to completion. EMiNA Cyber has been revived with better spirits. The Mines’ road construction finally completed. My town now has an independent McDonalds outlet and Jusco complex. Animals have returned to my little town - birds, squirrels, various pretty insects.

Although the most change that I have observed was that in myself. I don’t really make resolutions every time the new year rolls around. Probably because I think it’s pretty damn pointless. If you have to decide to on something, decide there and then la, why wait until the new year? Procrastinate and you’ll soon forget about it. Come to think of it, I procrastinated a lot of things too.

I realised that after I compiled an extensive ‘To Do‘ list for the first time ever in my life. It’s been a year full of discoveries for me, and mostly it’s all about discovering myself. Who I am, who I was, what I’d like to be and what I’m currently turning into. Plenty of those moments when I just stopped dead in my tracks and thought “Ah, that’s right. That’s what I really wanted.”

I suppose I can say that I’ve had enough of taking myself too seriously. I’ve been giving myself the chance to appreciate the humour in the shit that happens to hit the fan pointed in my direction. Confronted my fears instead of cowering in its shadow, and calmly picking up the broken pieces of myself instead of crying myself to sleep over it.

Made me realise, Ah, I really am the odd one out. But I like it. It’s nice. I like nice things. I like being nice. I like the nice feeling I get for being nice. Having been through some pretty deep shit, I suppose it just made me more optimistic than I was before.

Will be looking forward to 2007. Oh, and I’ll be going to catch some more fireworks, if you feel like joining, let me know ;)